Studies in the History of Old English Literature

1954 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
R. M. Wilson ◽  
Kenneth Sisam
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Old English Literature ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals In Defence of the Textual Integrity of the Old English Resignation

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Helena W. Sobol
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Old English Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Manuscript Context ◽  
Devotional Texts

Abstract Bliss & Frantzen’s (1976) paper against the previously assumed textual integrity of Resignation has been a watershed in research upon the poem. Nearly all subsequent studies and editions have followed their theory, the sole dissenting view being expressed by Klinck (1987, 1992). The present paper offers fresh evidence for the textual unity of the poem. First examined are codicological issues, whether the state of the manuscript suggests that a folio might be missing. Next analysed are the spellings of Resignation and its phonology, here the paper discusses peculiarities which both differentiate Resignation from its manuscript context and connect the two hypothetical parts of the text. Then the paper looks at the assumed cut-off point at l.69 to see if it may provide any evidence for textual discontinuity. Finally the whole Resignation, seen as a coherent poem, is placed in the history of Old English literature, with special attention being paid to the traditions of devotional texts and the Old English elegies.

The scholarly recovery of the significance of Anglo-Saxon records in prose and verse: a new bibliography

1980 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 223-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
Old English Literature ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The new bibliography by Stanley B. Greenfield and Fred C. Robinson of the entire body of publications on Old English literature provides the occasion for reviewing not so much the bibliography itself as the subject it covers. This article is, of course, not a brief history of Anglo-Saxon studies from the dissolution of the monasteries in Henry VIII's reign to the 1970s. It is a highly selective exemplification of some of the changing aims and achievements of scholars when they went to the vernacular records in prose and verse that survive from Anglo-Saxon times.

A Critical History of Old English Literature

1966 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Francis Lee Utley ◽  
Stanley B. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Old English Literature ◽  
Critical History ◽  
History Of

A New Critical History of Old English Literature

1988 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 660
Author(s):  
John C. Pope ◽  
Stanley B. Greenfield ◽  
Daniel G. Calder
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Old English Literature ◽  
Critical History ◽  
History Of
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